An idea from The Wealth of Nations

Great lords of the Middle Ages lost their power without a fight. Once towns sold luxuries, the lords spent their rents on a pair of diamond buckles instead of feeding 1,000 armed followers. Neither group set out to free the countryside; it came as a side effect of their trade.

From The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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